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They are architectural constructions the 

 scenery is painted for courtiers who wished to 

 re-instate the court in their own domain. 



"It is curious in this aspect to compare the 

 island of Calypso in Homer with that of Pension. 

 In Homer we have a veritable island, wild and 

 rocky, where sea-birds build their nests and 

 screech ; in Fene*lon, a sort of Marly, ' arranged 

 to please the eye.' Thus do the English gardens 

 as now imported by us indicate the advent of 

 another race, the reign of another taste and 

 literature, the ascendency of another mind, 

 more comprehensive, more solitary, more easily 

 fatigued, and more devoted to the world with- 

 in."* 



The Petit Trianon was a slight protest 

 against the sumptuous splendor of the Oran- 

 gerie, "The Grand Canal," the basins of I^a- 

 tona and of Neptune, and the superb Tapis 

 Vert, with its bordering groves of tortured 

 trees and shrubs. That its unhappy mistress 

 should have called this secluded retreat her 



* H. A. Taine, "Italy, Rome, and Naples." Transla- 

 tion of Durand. 



